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Readers’ Pick: Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 By Tom Osborne

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ALABAMA SHAKES, Sound & Color beats out GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, A Forest of Arms by 2 votes as your favorite for the week of April 21, 2015.

Poll Results

What is your favorite release for week of April 21?

  • ALABAMA SHAKES, Sound & Color (32%, 10 Votes)
  • GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, A Forest of Arms (26%, 8 Votes)
  • JIMBO MATHUS, Blue Healer (19%, 6 Votes)
  • LONESOME WYATT AND RACHEL BROOKE, Bad Omen (13%, 4 Votes)
  • NICKI BLUHM AND THE GRAMBLERS, Loved Wild Lost (10%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 31

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Readers’ Tops – Spring 2015

  1. RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, Ruffian’s Misfortune (22)
  2. DWIGHT YOAKAM, Second Hand Heart (21)
  3. ALABAMA SHAKES, Sound & Color (10)
  4. CALEXICO, Edge of the Sun (9)
  5. GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, A Forest of Arms (8)
  6. JIMBO MATHUS, Blue Healer (6)
  7. WILL HOGE, Small Town Dreams (5)
  8. THE DAMNWELLS, The Damnwells (5)
  9. LONESOME WYATT AND RACHEL BROOKE, Bad Omen (4)
  10. NICKI BLUHM AND THE GRAMBLERS, Loved Wild Lost (3)
  11. DELTA RAE, After It All (2)
  12. JOSH ROUSE, Embers of Time (2)
  13. KERMIT RUFFINS, #imsoneworleans (2)
  14. BRIAN WILSON, No Pier Pressure (1)
  15. POKEY LAFARGE, Something In The Water (1)

 


 

New Releases

New and notable this week:



New Poll

What is your favorite new release for week of May 29?

  • Joshua Ray Walker – Ain’t Dead Yet (21%, 9 Votes)
  • Nathan Evans Fox – Heirloom (12%, 5 Votes)
  • Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan – Where the Willow and Dogwood Grow (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Willie Nelson – Dream Chaser (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane (10%, 4 Votes)
  • SUSTO – Susto Stringband (Volume 2) (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Kurt Vile – Philadelphia’s been good to me (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Alexis Harte – Thirsty (7%, 3 Votes)
  • David Serby – Broken Heart In A Honky Tonk (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Lone Piñon – Hot Carne Seca (2%, 1 Votes)
  • JP Soars – Gypsy Blue Revue (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Joey Quiñones – Inna Soul Steady Situation (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Clay DuBose – Father Time & Mother Nature (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Leeroy Stagger – Pilgrimage (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Jesse and Noah – The Sunshine Shop (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Benson – Double Dose (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Amani Burhnam – Roots & Wings (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Robin Ganz – Hypnos (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Guided by Voices – Crawlspace Of The Pantheon (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck – The Fiddle and the Drum (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Gipsy Kings – Historia (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 42

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Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments.


About the author:  Gainesville, FL area creative by day. Music is my muse. I host Twangville’s weekly Readers‘ Pick.


Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Alabama Shakes, Great Lake Swimmers

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Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of May 29?

  • Joshua Ray Walker – Ain’t Dead Yet (21%, 9 Votes)
  • Nathan Evans Fox – Heirloom (12%, 5 Votes)
  • Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan – Where the Willow and Dogwood Grow (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Willie Nelson – Dream Chaser (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane (10%, 4 Votes)
  • SUSTO – Susto Stringband (Volume 2) (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Kurt Vile – Philadelphia’s been good to me (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Alexis Harte – Thirsty (7%, 3 Votes)
  • David Serby – Broken Heart In A Honky Tonk (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Lone Piñon – Hot Carne Seca (2%, 1 Votes)
  • JP Soars – Gypsy Blue Revue (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Joey Quiñones – Inna Soul Steady Situation (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Clay DuBose – Father Time & Mother Nature (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Leeroy Stagger – Pilgrimage (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Jesse and Noah – The Sunshine Shop (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Benson – Double Dose (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Amani Burhnam – Roots & Wings (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Robin Ganz – Hypnos (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Guided by Voices – Crawlspace Of The Pantheon (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck – The Fiddle and the Drum (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Gipsy Kings – Historia (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 42

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